From the Collection: Barrie, J. M. (James Matthew), 1860-1937
Published / Created:
1908
Call Number:
GEN MSS 1400
Container / Volume:
Box 43, folder 928
Image Count:
52
Description:
Autograph manuscript, with revisions, of an epilogue to the play Peter Pan, with an autograph inscription on the first leaf: "To Hilda Trevelyan, my incomparable Wendy, from J. M. B. March 1908." It was produced on one night only, February 22, 1908, at the Duke of York's Theatre, London. Published in When Wendy Grew Up, an Afterthought (Edinburgh: Nelson, 1957). Accompanied by a signed manuscript in the hand of Hilda Trevelyan explaining how the play came to be written and produced and how the manuscript was given to her, and an undated typed transcript in an orange wrapper.
From the Collection: Barrie, J. M. (James Matthew), 1860-1937
Published / Created:
1908
Call Number:
GEN MSS 1400
Container / Volume:
Box 43, folder 929
Image Count:
32
Description:
Typescript, with autograph revisions and manuscript revisions in Hilda Trevelyan's hand; in gray paper wrappers. Published in When Wendy Grew Up, an Afterthought (Edinburgh: Nelson, 1957). Accompanied by a typed letter, signed, to Sydney Blow from the Assistant Comptroller (name illegible) in the Lord Chamberlain's office (May 22, 1956).
From the Collection: Barrie, J. M. (James Matthew), 1860-1937
Published / Created:
1927
Call Number:
GEN MSS 1400
Container / Volume:
Box 44, folder 942
Image Count:
27
Description:
Autograph manuscript, signed, of a speech based on a short story "Jas Hook at Eton" and delivered to the First Hundred at Eton College on July 7, 1927. Published in the London Times, July 8, 1927. and in M'Connachie and J. M. B. (London: Peter Davies Limited, 1938). Accompanied by a typescript of the speech with autograph revisions.
From the Collection: Barrie, J. M. (James Matthew), 1860-1937
Published / Created:
[1904]
Call Number:
GEN MSS 1400
Container / Volume:
Box 43, folder 925
Image Count:
116
Description:
Manuscript, in unidentified hand, of a condensed score featuring performance notes and markings. For the Charles Frohman production starring Maude Adams with music by John Crook, of the Duke of York's Theatre, London, and Gustav Saenger, of the Empire Theatre.
From the Collection: Barrie, J. M. (James Matthew), 1860-1937
Published / Created:
1925 Jan
Call Number:
GEN MSS 1400
Container / Volume:
Box 43, folder 938
Image Count:
15
Description:
Autograph manuscript of a short story originally written for publication in The Flying Carpet, which was replaced by "Neil and Tintinnabulum." It appears later in a speech, "Capt. Hook at Eton," delivered by Barrie to the First Hundred at Eton on July 7, 1927.
From the Collection: Barrie, J. M. (James Matthew), 1860-1937
Published / Created:
1928 July 18
Call Number:
GEN MSS 1400
Container / Volume:
Box 44, folder 945
Image Count:
126
Description:
Autograph manuscript, signed, of the five-act version prepared for publication. The sixteen preliminary leaves contain Barrie's dedication/preface "To the Five," dated May 9, 1928. There are alterations in the work as published. The title inscribed on the flyleaf continues "to Cynthia Asquith from her affectionate J. M. Barrie Dec 1928" with a second presentation inscription on verso of free front endpaper: "for Simon Asquith from his mother Cynthia Asquith." Bound in brown morocco by Douglas Cockerell & Son; signed "DC & Son 1928" and enclosed in a wooden box.
From the Collection: Barrie, J. M. (James Matthew), 1860-1937
Published / Created:
1907
Call Number:
GEN MSS 1400
Container / Volume:
Box 43, folder 926
Image Count:
3
Description:
Autograph notes describing the curtain to be used in the 1908 production of Peter Pan. The curtain, designed to resemble a sampler, was a gift from Barrie to Charles Frohman. An image of the curtain appears in Roger Lancelyn's Fifty Years of Peter Pan (London: Peter Davies, 1954).
From the Collection: Barrie, J. M. (James Matthew), 1860-1937
Published / Created:
1921
Call Number:
GEN MSS 1400
Container / Volume:
Box 43, folder 937
Image Count:
86
Description:
Two typescripts (variants) with autograph revisions in one; in gray paper wrappers. Published in Roger Lancelyn Green's Fifty Years of Peter Pan (London: Peter Davies, 1954).
From the Collection: Barrie, J. M. (James Matthew), 1860-1937
Published / Created:
1928
Call Number:
GEN MSS 1400
Container / Volume:
Box 44, folder 943
Image Count:
27
Description:
Preface/dedication prepared for the publication of the play. Accompanied by leaves 4, 5, 6, 7, and 15 of another manuscript version of the "dedication" and by one leaf of notes.
From the Collection: Barrie, J. M. (James Matthew), 1860-1937
Published / Created:
1908
Call Number:
GEN MSS 1400
Container / Volume:
Box 43, folder 927
Image Count:
12
Description:
Autograph manuscript, incomplete, of an epilogue to the play Peter Pan. Produced as "An After-thought" on one night only, February 22, 1908, at the Duke of York's Theatre, London. Accompanied by five pages of autograph notes including ideas for sequels to the Peter Pan story and for the development of the character of Peter Pan.
From the Collection: Barrie, J. M. (James Matthew), 1860-1937
Published / Created:
1904–1905
Call Number:
GEN MSS 1400
Container / Volume:
Box 42, folder 913
Image Count:
9
Description:
Scene 2 is similar to the text of the same scene in the 1904-1905 three-act version (typescript) of the play entitled "Anon." Most of the text of Scene 4 is published in Roger Lancelyn Green's Fifty Years of Peter Pan (London: Peter Davies, 1954), pages 66-67.
From the Collection: Barrie, J. M. (James Matthew), 1860-1937
Published / Created:
1920
Call Number:
GEN MSS 1400
Container / Volume:
Box 43, folder 934
Image Count:
33
Description:
Typescript, with autograph inscription on title page: "Private Property - J. M. Barrie"; in gray paper wrappers. Accompanied by a typed transcript of a note to Maude Adams (original note not present).
From the Collection: Barrie, J. M. (James Matthew), 1860-1937
Published / Created:
1912
Call Number:
GEN MSS 1400
Container / Volume:
Box 43, folder 932
Image Count:
11
Description:
Autograph manuscript of a speech written by Barrie and probably delivered by Hilda Trevelyan at the Playgoers' Club "Peter Pan Dinner" on December 22, 1912; accompanied by the printed program for the dinner.
From the Collection: Barrie, J. M. (James Matthew), 1860-1937
Published / Created:
1908
Call Number:
GEN MSS 1400
Container / Volume:
Box 43, folder 930
Image Count:
10
Description:
Autograph manuscript with notes on first and last leaves: "I think this was done as a leaflet for the Paris production" and "Written for the Vaudeville Theatre, Paris where (translated into French) it was given away with the programmes. The London company played it. [June 1908] J.M.B." The French translation appeared in a twelve-page booklet titled "L'histoire de Peter Pan, ou le petit garcon qui ne voulait pas grandir."
From the Collection: Barrie, J. M. (James Matthew), 1860-1937
Published / Created:
1904–1905
Call Number:
GEN MSS 1400
Container / Volume:
Box 42, folder 914-916
Image Count:
273
Description:
The three-act version of the play, with manuscript revisions in an unidentified hand and interleaved with lighting plots, stage business, and prompt cues in several unidentified hands. First preliminary leaf: "A Note On the Acting of a Fairy Play." Used in the 1904-1905 production. In gray paper wrappers.
From the Collection: Barrie, J. M. (James Matthew), 1860-1937
Published / Created:
1904–1905
Call Number:
GEN MSS 1400
Container / Volume:
Box 42, folder 917
Image Count:
3
Description:
With autograph revisions. A version or possible ending of the early version of the play, this leaf could be the variant copy Roger Lancelyn Green speaks of in his Fifty Years of Peter Pan (London: Peter Davies, 1954).
From the Collection: Barrie, J. M. (James Matthew), 1860-1937
Published / Created:
1905
Call Number:
GEN MSS 1400
Container / Volume:
Box 42, folder 918
Image Count:
33
Description:
From the five-act American production, in gray paper wrappers. Second preliminary leaf: "A Note On the Acting of a Fairy Play"; published in Roger Lancelyn Green's Fifty Years of Peter Pan (London: Peter Davies, 1954), page 105.
From the Collection: Barrie, J. M. (James Matthew), 1860-1937
Published / Created:
1905
Call Number:
GEN MSS 1400
Container / Volume:
Box 42, folder 919-920
Image Count:
207
Description:
Two typescripts (variants) with autograph revisions, from the five-act version, prepared for the first American production in Washington, November 1905. One typescript is accompanied by a carbon copy of Acts III and IV.
